These authors wanted to push the COVID-19 lab-leak theory. Instead they exposed its weaknesses
"Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19" by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley; Harper (416 pages, $30)
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Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, has become one of the leading exponents of the hypothesis that the virus causing the COVID-19 pandemic leaked from a Chinese laboratory. Matt Ridley, a much-published science writer and member of the British House of Lords, emerged as a leading climate change denier with a provocative Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2014.
The book they joined forces to write, "," presents the case for the lab-leak hypothesis, presumably with the secondary goal of establishing the authors as the preeminent truth-tellers on the topic. (The book's epilogue is titled "Truth Will Out," a
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